Biography of Ada Rogovtseva - the great actress of our time

Many fans of cinema and theater know well who Ada Rogovtseva is. Biography of the famous actress is full of tests and life lessons, ups and downs, defeats and victories. Perhaps, thanks to all that Ada had to endure, she became as we know it today. What was her life like? A brief biography of Ada Rogovtseva is described in the article.

Childhood and youth

The future actress in Ukraine was born in a small town called Glukhov in the summer of 1937. The hungry years of the war were remembered for a long time by Ada, despite the fact that she was quite a child at that time. The girl's father was an educated man, graduated from two institutes - agricultural and industrial, worked in the pre-war years in the NKVD, and therefore the family had to often move with him from Glukhov to Kiev and back. After the war, Nikolai Ivanovich Rogovtsev drank and lived in recent years in Poltava. Alcohol also killed both Ada brothers. Biography of Ada Rogovtseva testifies that youth, like childhood, was not easy. At 17 she remained, in fact, an orphan - my mother died, and my father always drank.

Biography of Ada Rogovtseva: education and first roles

After school, the girl went to Kiev and entered the Theater Institute. I.K. Karpenka-Kary, who successfully graduated in 1959. Already from the first year Ada began to act in films. She was such a good student that she received a Stalin scholarship, and at that time she had to really try very hard to deserve her. Ada, in addition to studying, had time to play roles in several films a year, and in her first film "When the Nightingales sing," she played the main role at once.

Biography of Ada Rogovtseva: first real success

After graduating from the institute, Ada became an actress of the Kiev drama troupe. Theater them. Lesia Ukrainka, where she worked for 35 years. The real popularity came to the actress in 1970, after performing the role of Maria Tkacheva (underground during the Civil War) in the film "Salute, Maria!" For this work she was awarded the Best Actress in Moscow at the International Film Festival and recognized as the best actress in the country . Extreme diligence, dedication and love for her profession allowed Ada Rogovtseva in 1960 to become a well-deserved artist of the Ukrainian SSR, in 1978 she became a People's Artist of the whole Soviet Union. She was also awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor, the Order of Friendship, the State Prize for them. T.G. Shevchenko, the prize of the Leninist Komsomol of Ukraine. In 2007, the great actress Ada Rogovtseva was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine.

Biography: family and children

With her husband Konstantin Petrovich Stepankov (People's Artist of the USSR) Ada met at the institute, married him, gave birth to him two children - daughter Catherine and son Konstantin, waited for grandchildren - Dashenka and Alyosha. When Ada was 67 years old, her husband passed away , and at the age of 75 she lost her son, who was seriously ill.

Biography Ada Rogovtseva has many dozens of roles in theater and cinema, and today, despite her advanced age, she continues to work.